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"A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to take stock of our current planetary crisis. This is a guide for researchers of many stripes; a book that nurtures and promotes a revitalized natural history in direct response to worlds falling apart"--

"Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth's climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, reduced nutritional levels in crops, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to spread into temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, allergens, dust, and other particulate matter will impair our physical and mental health and even reduce our cognitive abilities. Climate change disproportionately affects the world's poor. It also harms Nature, and could ultimately trigger a sixth mass extinction. In Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change. They argue that, while we wait for the world's governments to get serious about mitigating climate change, we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations, behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and education"--

Intro -- The Environmental Alarmist -- The Environmental Alarmist -- PART ONE -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- PART TWO -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- PART THREE -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.

Obálka -- Obsah -- Předmluva -- 1. Na co poukazuje případ Velikonočního ostrova -- 2. Základy historie -- 3. Devadesát devět procent dějin -- 4. První velký skok -- 5. Destrukce a přežití -- 6. Nekonečné úsilí -- 7. Myšlenkové směry -- 8. Drancování světa -- 9. Základy nerovnosti -- 10. Nemoci a smrt -- 11. Velká čísla -- 12. Druhý velký skok -- 13. Vzestup měst -- 14. Vznik blahobytné společnosti -- 15. Znečišťování světa -- 16. Globální systém v ohrožení -- 17. Stín minulosti -- Doporučená literatura -- Rejstřík

Cover Leben zwischen Natur und Kultur E-BOOK -- Inhalt -- Prolog -- Das Rohe, das Gekochte und Rocky Balboas Eier als zeitweilige Referenz -- Technik- und Lebenswissenschaften: Grenzverschiebungen / Neuorientierungen -- Die kontrollierte Simulation der Unkontrollierbarkeit. Kontroll- und Wissensformen in der Technowissenschaftskultur -- Natur in der Krise. Die Technisierung der Lebenswelt und die Antiquiertheit biokonservativer Technikkritik -- Zur Funktion des 'nackten Lebens' als Außenseite des Sozialen für die Herstellung eines Akteurmodells für Cyborgs. Oder: Die kulturelle Leistung einer Naturalisierung sozialer Akteure als Menschen -- Technikwissenschaften: Nanotechnologie und synthetische Biologie -- Posthumanismus und Menschenwürde -- Natürlich Nano. Die argumentative Kraft von Naturkonzepten in Laiendiskussionen zu Nanotechnologie -- Die Nanotechnologie findet nicht statt -- Lebenswissenschaften: Medizin und Genetik -- Das Primat der 'Natur' im Gegensatz zur 'Künstlichkeit' in der Medizin der Aufklärung -- Kulturelle Monster beherrschen. Erkundungen zur Einführung prädiktiver Gentests -- Umweltkonzepte in der Epigenetik -- Autorinnen und Autoren.

Australia was the first country in the world to officially ban old fashioned incandescent light bulbs as a solution to climate change but was it a good idea? In fact does anything we do in Australia really make any difference?

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I The Journey -- 2 First Lessons in Global Change -- 2.1 Youth Adventures -- 2.2 Beginning Biological Lessons -- 2.3 Broadening My Horizons -- 2.4 Crater Lake Turning Point -- 2.5 Storm of a Century -- 2.6 The Deep Sea PhD -- 2.7 Sea Legs and Tsunami -- 2.8 Around the World in 180 days -- References -- 3 Alaskan Lessons -- 3.1 Earthquake and Ignored Geologic Warnings -- 3.2 Looking for Offshore Gold -- 3.3 Hard and Humorous Logistics Lessons -- 3.4 Mercury Pollution -- 3.5 Encounters with Bear and Walrus -- 3.6 Assessing Hazards for Petroleum Development -- 3.7 Risks at Sea and on Shore -- 3.8 Gas in the Sea Bottom -- 3.9 Ships Crew-The Good and the Bad -- 3.10 Budget Cuts and Last Cruises -- 3.11 A Ship with no Captain -- References -- 4 Global Lessons -- 4.1 Crater Lake and Volcanic Hazards -- 4.2 A Flying Boat at Crater Lake -- 4.3 Politics and Science -- 4.4 Tiller Whales -- 4.5 Disappearing Walrus -- 4.6 Mediterranean Sea -- 4.7 Gulf of Mexico -- 4.8 Gulf of Mexico Hazards -- 4.9 Lake Baikal Russia -- 4.10 Russian Adventures -- 4.11 Corsica and Var France -- 4.12 Antarctic Natural World -- 4.13 Earthquakes and Hazards -- 4.14 New Millennium Studies -- References -- Part II Earth in Peril -- 5 Climate Change Patterns -- 5.1 Climate and Global Warming Background -- 5.2 Increased Greenhouse Gases -- 5.3 Acid Ocean -- 5.4 Rising Ocean Temperature and Sea Level -- 5.5 Diminishing Polar Ice, Mountain Glaciers, Permafrost -- 5.6 Past 20 years of Record-Breaking Temperatures -- 5.7 Worse Extreme Weather Events -- 5.8 Increasing Extinction Rates -- 5.9 Natural Versus Human-Caused Climate Change -- 5.10 Message to Global Warming Deniers and Skeptics -- References -- 6 Other Global Changes.